Our leaders seek to encourage parents, to involve them with discipling their sons

Relationship building activity is a main ingredient in Brigade Achievement

This is a letter sent by one of our Regional Directors to a local Brigade Leader to encourage him as he seeks to challenge, encourage, and equip the parents in his local church.

Dear Chris,

I
appreciate that you are encouraging parents to support their sons and
to give them encouragement from home. I know what you are dealing with,
it’s never an easy road but the parents are key.

I
see this now with my grandson, a fourth grader. He’s making progress in
his achievement mainly because I take some time most weeks to go over
some part of the requirements, a step each week. As long as he sees I’m
interested in working with him, he cooperates. I doubt if any of it
would be done on his own.

Arden Musselman is CSB Regional Director for the Delaware Valley and Capital Regions

And
yet that’s the point. We are discipling the boy. This requires a
person, not a system, willing to help make those disciples. And parents
need to be affirmed in their God given role of discipling their
children. Brigade is there to help in this vital task. We’ve been
telling people that the Brigade achievement program is not about
patches, it is a time tested map for discipleship.

I
had the immense privilege just today of doing Exploring God’s Word in
Blockhouse Two with my grandson. Did he want to do it right then? No,
but once I showed him with

The kind of
passionate and competent woman that makes any organization thrive.

If you are like me then you too will want to skip this staff
introduction, but that would be a mistake. I

understand the desire to do so. Honestly,
how is that person half way across the continent who you will probably never
meet relevant enough to justify the time investment?

Kim's passion for ministry recently took her to do ministry in Zambia

But I realized that you need to know these people not just
because they are important members of the growing CSB team, but because they
are really really cool people! God has without a doubt brought to us passionate
and interesting members of the body of Christ.

It would be a mistake not to take the next minute to learn
about Kim Ferri, our Business and Operations Manager. This is the kind of
passionate and competent woman that makes any organization thrive.

Here she is in her own words:

“It became very clear to me, very early in my son's life
that both my son and my husband not only would benefit from interaction with
Godly men but they NEEDED that interaction in order to follow Jesus as God
designed. I believe our boys and men in America are so bombarded with
emasculating messages that without a ministry like CSB it is near impossible for
them to follow Biblical teaching. It was over a decade ago that God put on my
heart to help wherever possible my brothers in Christ find a place where
they can learn and become who God designed them to be, warriors at heart. As
Max Lucado has stated, I paraphrase, "safe communities have Godly men
leading them".

I was first approached by Scott Haima almost a year ago to
think about how I might be able to serve God and CSB. This past Spring the
tugging on my heart became a reality.

My aim is to help CSB operate in the
most efficient, cost
effective way possible so that our leaders of men are freed up to disciple. I
have a passion for cutting costs and improving operation efficiency and my new
role with CSB allows me to do that.

If you are wondering what my responsibilities look like day
to day it’s